Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1908 bv Forest amd Strkam Pubushbig Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1903. 
I VOL. LXI.— No. 19. 
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DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI. 
We shall begin in our issue of November 21 Rayinond 
S. Spears' story of the expedition "Down the Mississippi" 
which he has undertaken at the instance of Forest and 
Stream and for the benefit of its readers. Those who 
followed Mr. Spears in his "Walk Down South" require 
no assurance that in the new serial they have a rich 
treat in store. The chapters will be among the many 
good things to appear in the forthcoming issues of this 
journal. 
NEJ4^ YORK EXPORT AND LICENSE. 
The New York prohibition of export of game is suffi- 
ciently definite and explicit for the understanding of all 
concerned. It reads : 
"Sec, 38. Birds or game, except fish, taken in this State 
shall not be transported without the State; nor shall the 
same be taken or possessed with intent to transport the 
same without the State." 
The only question of interpretation of the law is with 
reference to game killed in certain counties bordering 
New Jersey, from which the guniier returning to his 
home in New York State passes through New Jersey. 
To take game into New Jersey is to transport "without 
the State," but when the actual destination of the owner 
accompanying the game is in New York State, the 
authorities take a common sense view of the matter, and 
do not construe such carrying as export. 
The New Jersey authorities, however, interfere with the 
transportation. The law of New Jersey prohibits the ex- 
port of game from that State. The wardens assume 
J urisdiction over game brought from New York into New 
Jersey on its way to New York, and when the sportsman 
with his birds reaches Jersey City and attempts to cross the 
ferry to New York the New Jersey wardens say the game 
is contraband because in course of exportation from New 
Jersey. 
This interference by the New Jersey authorities ma}- be 
obviated if the game in a package s given to the express 
company for delivery in New York city, and if the owner 
accompanies it on the same train. The New Jersey law 
exempts "common carriers [i. e., railroads, express com- 
panies, steamboats, stages, and other transportation lines] 
carr3nng from beyond the confines of this State in un- 
broken packages to some point beyond the confines of this 
State." 
The New York law respecting non-resident shooting 
licenses is so clumsily worded that even the authorities 
are befogged as to the meaning of certain of its provi- 
sions. This is the text of the section: 
Sec. S9. Non-residents.— On fresh water forming a part of the 
State boundaries, or tlirough which the State boundary runs, no 
non-resident of the State shall take any kind of fish or game in 
that part thereof within this State unless residents of this State 
may lawfully take the same kind of fish or game in such part of 
said waters as are not within the State, during the open season 
therefor in thg State or country iti ■yvhich such waters are situated. 
If any license fee to take such fish or game in waters not in this 
State, be required of a resident of this State a non-resident may 
take the same kind of fish or game in such waters within this 
State, if a license so to do shall have been first obtained from the 
Commissioner. Nor shall any non-resident not the owner of real 
estate in this State and against whose real estate there are no 
delinquent taxes, take fish by spearing in this State except on a 
like license if there is any discrimination by requiring a license 
or otherwise in the State or country where such non-resident 
resides against residents of New York in taking fish in such State 
or country. Game shall not be taken by any such non-resident ex- 
cept pursuant to a license issued on payment of a fee not less 
in amount than the fee, if any, required of a resident of New 
York for taking game in the State or country where such non- 
resident resides, and if there be none, then on payment of such 
fee as the Commission shall prescribe. 
The first part of the section is clear. It means that a 
resident of a State which has a non-resident license for 
shooting must pay an equivalent license for the privilege 
of shooting on the boundary fresh waters within this 
State. As to territory not comprised in the description 
"fresh water forming a part of the State boundaries," 
it appears to have been the intent of the Legislature to 
exact from the non-resident shooter a license fee equiva- 
lent to the fee charged non-residents in his own State. If 
this was the intention, the entire territory of New York, 
whether fresh water boundaries or inland, would be 
treated in the same way, and the simple provision would 
have been that a non-resident before shooting in New 
York must pay a license fee equal to the non-resident 
shooting license fee exacted in his own State. The en- 
tire section is retaliatory and is not based on sound prin- 
ciples of legislation. If New York deems it necessary to 
license non-resident shooters, the license should be made 
uniform for all alike; retaliation is unworthy and has no 
place in a code of game and fish laws. As a matter of 
fact the game authorities do not exact a license from 
non-residents for shooting except upon boundary fresh 
water. 
TIPPING. 
It is commonly supposed that the tip is a gratuity 
given by an appreciative or grateful donor to some 
one who has rendered an extra and acceptable personal 
service, but who has already been paid for that service 
in a regular way. There are several grades of the un- 
earned gratuity. There is the honorarium so pleasing- 
]y recognized among professional men; there is the 
douceur which sometimes is so near the border be- 
tween a gratuity and a bribe; there is the lagniappe of 
Louisiana, which, in a way, corresponds to the cosmo- 
politan gratuity called a tip. 
As between tipper and tippee, extra personal atten- 
tion, skill and care in attending to all matters of detail 
which refer to the safeguarding of one's belongings, or 
administering especially to one's comfort, are assumed 
to be the basic justification for the bestowal of the tip 
at all. However, in matters of justification, the tippee 
refrains from investigating too curiously. 
In America, it is generally though erroneously ac- 
cepted as an established fact, that in Europe, the system 
of tipping is nicely adjusted on a reasonably moderate, 
amicable, conventional basis, satisfactory alike to him 
who gives and to him who receives. In both Europe 
and America, however, particularly in the large cities, 
the tip, as a gratuity, has almost ceased to exist. By 
servants, whether hotel or restaurant waiters, baggage- 
men at the great depots, Pullman porters, and others, 
it is looked for and aggressively played for as a fee 
to be paid, with an entire disregard as to whether or 
not any extra personal service has been rendered for 
it. Indeed, it is not infrequently expected to be given 
for refraining to do injury instead of for extra effort 
to do good. 
The aggressive devices for extracting the tip are 
many. Each guild has its specialty. The Pullman car 
porter is, at the last moment, spectacularly attentive 
with his whisk broom, brushing strenuously at imag- 
inary dust, obsequious to an abject degree till he se- 
cures the coveted tip, whereupon he relapses into the 
most apathetic indifference. . 
The baggageman, if bribed, will refrain, perhaps, 
from smashing baggage for the bribe's sake, or if he 
delivers it in the house, he may refrain from smashing 
the banisters, scraping the paper off the wall, or 
wrecking the chandeliers, if perehaiice hp v/ill consent 
to carry it further than the front door before being 
placated with a tip, really a bribe. 
The average restaurant waiter, as a tip collector, is 
the expert of all. He may, as a waiter, have no skill 
whatever, but as a tippee he is equal to a multitude. 
He is versatile in his methods. Generally, he is op- 
pressively attentive, giving exaggerated importance to 
his carefulness and politeness, and in conclusion is ag- 
gressively conspicuous at the time of departure. Or he 
may figuratively try the virtue of the sandbag by being 
dilatory, deaf and surly. Let a man become a patron 
of any average restaurant in New York, and, if he 
does not tip, he will be served so badly that, in self-re- 
spect, he will have to abandon the place as a re- 
sort for dining. The merit of the case is not consid- 
ered by the candidate for the tip, as being any factor 
to be taken into account. The guest is expected to tip 
whether served poorly or well. 
Having no determinate origin, the tip, by the tippee, 
is supposed to be forthcoming as an official perquisite 
due by virtue of mere tipping usage, be the service 
what it may. 
The sportsman who ventures forth with dog and gun 
is peculiarly the prey of the rapacious tippee. The 
possible injury to dog or gun, or the care needed by 
either, is the tippee's valuable asset in extracting the 
tip. 
In England, the abuse of the tipping system seems 
to have reached a higher developmental stage than it 
has in America. The County Gentleman, in a recent 
issue, recounts that a sportsman, resident of a city in 
England, was invited for a week's shooting on a moor 
in Scotland. He found that he could shoot but one 
day, at the close of which he gave the head keeper a 
sovereign. With him he left his gun, requesting that it 
be sent on to another moor where he was due to shoot 
a few days later, and thereby save him the trouble of 
lugging it about. On his arrival at the place designated 
he failed to find his gun. Writing to the head keeper 
he received the following reply: "Sir: It is quite true 
your gun has not arrived, for it is in my possession, 
where it will remain until I receive the balance of what 
you owe me. You may not be aware that it is the rule 
on Moor to always give paper (£5), and as you 
gave me one pound, I will be glad if you will send me 
four pounds, when your gun shall be sent." 
The tipper sent this letter to the servant's master, 
who replied as follows: "Dear : I am, sorry 
my keeper has written to you in the way he has, but 
please clearly understand that I cannot interfere with 
his arrangements in the middle of the season." The 
tipper thereupon forwarded the four pounds, received 
his gun, and the tippee is still in the same employ. 
This was rather a peculiar situation, concerning host, 
guest and servant, which, in America, bad as the tip- 
ping custom has become, would hot be tolerated for a 
moment at any time of the season. 
The aforementioned journal remarks on tipping: 
"As to the rich man who gives lavishly, the real harm 
he does is that he makes it very hard indeed for others 
who cannot afford large amounts, but yet who give 
what the rich man gives. And what a large total it 
comes to! A visit to a country house is not only a 
question of cabs, railway tickets and porters; there are 
also the coachman who fetches you from the station 
to the Hall and back again; the butler, the footman 
who valets, the chambermaid, besides the keepers, load- 
ers and cartridge carriers. It is not surprising there- 
fore, that so many men have absolutely to refuse invi- 
tations on account of their inability to tip as others do." 
Thus the tip in some of its phases seems to have 
evolved from the world of gratuity into the world of 
graft. 
All of which seems to indicate that the sandbag of 
the tippee is even more active in Europe than it is in 
America, though the signs of the times are that event- 
ually we shall surpass that country in the magnitude 
of the custom which demands that something shall be 
paid for nothing in return. Of course, there is much 
of genuine personal attention over and above routine 
duty, betimes bestowed, which the beneficiary may 
justly recognize and reward, but there is a deal of 
sham in the world of tipping which should be ignor^4 
and left jprofitless, 
